Originally Posted by
Kontact
I used a simple device to illustrate something about a more complicated one for people that would have trouble with basic ideas, like.
Your analogies with simple devices are irrelevant, because those simple devices don't behave the same as a bicycle frame. If analogies were all that were required, I'd make the (equally bad) argument that tennis racquets prove that a stiffer frame is better. (Because a stiff racquet gives you more power than a flexible racquet, and is therefore more efficient.)